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Fitting a Query Engine in Three Cache Lines

3/7/2026
Why the bytecode that powers your analytical queries is smaller than a tweet, and why that matters more than you think.

Kovan: From Production MVCC Systems to Wait-Free Memory Reclamation

2/18/2026
How years of building production concurrent systems led to implementing Crystalline, a wait-free memory reclamation scheme that eliminates tail latency and unbounded memory growth.

The Halberd Join System: Powering On-Premise AI by Mastering Local Data Joins

4/20/2025
Joining massive local datasets is the Achilles' heel of on-premise AI and lakehouse strategies. Discover how the Halberd join system conquers this challenge, unlocking insights without data leakage.

Morsels, Compilation, and People

3/25/2025
Why and why now?